Design/Meetings/2024-01-31

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    Minutes

    Present: Sahil, JJ, John, Eyal, Rafael, Heiko
    Comments: Jan, Stuart
    
    Tickets/Topics
    
     * Autocorrect options are very confusing and difficult to use
       + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=158876
       + renaming some options might be beneficial (Jan)
       + Separate the list into two lists, textual replacements/corrections,
         and formatting/structural element (Eyal)
         + everything is formatting and replacement (Heiko)
         + splitting should support the perception (Eyal)
       + Change phrasing, eg "Replace dashes" could become "Replace dash
         sequence with En-Dash or Em-Dash" (Eyal)
         + sure but the function is more complex and requires the
           documentation
       + distinction would be artificial and orthogonal to the M/T option;
         rather than renaming we could add tooltips (Heiko)
       + tooltips could be a help (Heiko)
         + sounds good (Eyal)
         + requires coding though
       => comment and recommend to not change the list
       => renaming is good; AI Eyal: provide a complete list of better labels
    
     * Non-corrective Autoformat settings can't just be placed under
       AutoCorrect
       + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=158877
       + unclear request (John, Heiko)
         + formatting such as *bold* or apply styles is not really a
           correction (Eyal)
       + no good alternative, maybe "auto correction/formatting"
       + wonder if changing the semantics improve usability (John)
       + camel case label is bad; but familiar to users (Heiko)
       + no apparent issue; all auto-corrections are also formatting too (Heiko)
       => resolve NAB without better alternative
    
     * Use Noto family fonts as default fonts for all the LibreOffice tools
       + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=159261
       + Noto Sans is being used for Impress templates (Stuart)
       + smalls like personal preference; against Google fonts
         in principle (Eyal)
       + rather add metric compatible fonts for latest MSO (John)
       + to open legacy document with the same layout after years is
         our self-identity; which is not the discussion here since
         we would change the fonts for new documents (Heiko)
       + Liberation fonts is our trademark; and it's easy to change;
         not worth the effort (Rafael)
       + a lot of effort to make the QA tests happy (Heiko)
       + such a change should have much more backup (Eyal)
       => WF
    
     * provide easy UI to automatically apply digital signature when
       storing documents
       + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=159040
       + checkbox "[ ] Sign document" at the Save/As dialog;
         clumsy solution but maybe easy to use (Heiko)
       + similar workflow but signing comes before saving (Eyal)
       + alternative is to have a default signature defined in
         tools > options > security and just the option to apply or not;
         needs some interaction to change the default, maybe via the current
         workflow (Eyal)
       => comment
    
     * It would be nice to have an exclude file type option from Recent Files
       + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=159277
       + exclude per module using a string like "csv;xml;tab" (similar
         solution available in IDEs, for example)
       + MRU is a simple and established paradigm; WF (Jan)
       + very specific workflow (Eyal)
       + use CSV a lot and want to see it (Rafael)
       + solve per extension that clears the MRU list on startup (Heiko)
       + better keep the ticket, maybe as easyhack, with low priority (Eyal, Rafael)
       => go for it